Posted on 02/15/2017 12:24:27 PM PST by jazusamo
This story, from the Jan. 12, 2017, edition of the New York Times , was little-remarked upon at the time, but suddenly has taken on far greater significance in light of current events:
In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.
The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.
The change means that far more officials will be searching through raw data. Essentially, the government is reducing the risk that the N.S.A. will fail to recognize that a piece of information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the risk that officials will see private information about innocent people.
One of the central questions behind the Mike Flynn flap that should have been asked but largely wasn't is: who was wiretapping the general? The answer, we know now, was the National Security Agency, formerly known as No Such Agency, the nation's foremost signals-intelligence (SIGINT) collection department.
Once compartmentalized to avoid injuring private citizens caught up in the net of the Black Widow (as we all are already) and her technological successors, the NSA was suddenly handed greater latitude in what it could share with other, perhaps more politicized bodies of the intelligence community. Why?
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Where’s Trump’s Executive Order ROLLING BACK these broad powers bequeathed by 0dungsh*t?
Anything Omoeba could do by edict, Trump can undo.
Trump should rescind that “greater latitude” handed to the NSA by 0bama.
"[Montesquieu wrote in his Spirit of the Laws XII,c.12:] 'Words carried into action assume the nature of that action. Thus a man who goes into a public market-place to incite the subject to revolt incurs the guilt of high treason, because the words are joined to the action, and partake of its nature. It is not the words that are punished, but an action in which words are employed. They do not become criminal, but when they are annexed to a criminal action: everything is confounded if words are construed into a capital crime, instead of considering them only as a mark of that crime.'" --Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book.
If Obama had the power to give more power to the NSA, then Trump has the power to take it away.
0bama should be arrested for sedition.
Reductions in force are coming soon. (Hopefully)
Flynn still should have been aware imho
The new heads of the NSA FBI CIA now have a license to monitor Hillary, Soros, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Blumenthal, NYT, WaPo etc. with very little oversight. I hope they take the opportunity, under these new rules, to send a few of these people to jail or at least expose them.
Maybe Trump should use those powers against Democrats and see how they like it! How about opening investigations against the usual suspects from the prior administration, then have the NSA spy on them and share what they learn with the people doing the investigating! Then leak that info to the press!
Big Brother.
President Trump.....ROLL THIS BACK!!!
No doubt some CIA activist shthead f@got leaked it.
The CIa is rotten and puéril. Bunch of idiots working there. The only two CIA I ever met were either flaming liberals or ex cops sucking liberal antigun antimen clits at the DA office
Latitude as in giving access to former Muslim traitor presidents remotely? As in NSA communications of every type where there’s no logs of any kind activity kept?
I remember outrage at the time.
President Trump really has to get his cabinet in place. He is good, but needs advisors on some of this stuff and we all know how the cabinet thing is going.
Yeah, I bet they were given these powers to “GET TRUMP”.
He should start appointing czars ... there is precedent.
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